>William Howard Taft was also the largest American president at 6 feet 3 inches and approximately 350 pounds. He apparently was very good-natured about his size. >Before becoming president, he once visited a small town on legal business. After his meeting, he learned that the next scheduled train would not arrive for several hours, although an express train would run through in less than an hour - but without stopping.>He therefore wired the railroad superintendent to ask if the express train would stop for a "large party." The superintendent agreed, and signaled ahead to the train's conductor to make an unscheduled stop. When Taft boarded the train, he remarked to the bewildered conductor, "You can go ahead; I AM the large party."
